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Black-bellied Falcon, Forji. Am. Cat. p-. 8. 

 Black-cheeked Falcon, Am. Zool. N° 



'■"PHIS is a large fpecies, being equal to an Eagle in fize. The 



head and neck are of a deep afh-colour : the belly black. 

 • For further particulars, as well as manners, confult Am. Zoo- 

 logy. 



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BLACK- 

 CHEEKED 

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 Description. 



*"pHIS fpecies is of a fize little inferior to that of an Eagle. 

 The bill is black and hooked : the cere yellow : irides 

 brown : the parts above are of a reddifh brown colour : the 

 top of the head pretty dark ; the edges of the feathers darkeft. 

 Acrofs the middle of the wing is a bar of dark brown, pretty 

 broad, and molt part of the quills are of the fame colour to the 

 end : the tail of the fame colour as the upper part ; the bafe, 

 the middle, and the end of a dark brown : all the under parts, 

 from the chin to the vent, are of a yellowilh buff-colour : the 

 legs are yellow, very flout : claws large, hooked, and black. 



This is an inhabitant of India : the defcription and drawing 

 of the bird lent me by Mr. Pennant: fee plate iii. of this work. 



In a collection of drawings exhibited in King-Street, Covent-Gar- 

 den, April 28, 1780, I obferved a bird which was not very different 

 from the above, perhaps a variety. It was crefted, the crefb 

 compofed of afh-coloured and black feathers intermixed : the' 

 bill black : iris of a pale yelldw : fides of the head, round the 

 eye, of an afh-colour : back and wings deep chocolate brown ; 



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